Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey, which probed the relationship between communication and political development. This involved interviewing a great many villagers. Of course, we couldn't do the interviews ourselves, so we had a team of ten University M.A.'s doing it. One of our problems was that the village women had no idea what an opinion poll was. 'Why do you want to ask me?' they said. 'The headman knows more than...
When it came to other cures, Houser's antirecession committee came out for expansion of Government spending already under way and product improvement and price reductions by business, suggested that President Eisenhower use his influence to get a one-year moratorium on price and wage hikes. But the idea of a price-wage freeze got little support from the meeting's free enterprisers, who had no enthusiasm for urging the President to take such a direct hand in the wage and price process, even on a voluntary basis...
Economist Reierson dismissed the idea that the economy will slip into deep depression. But neither did he see any return to the boom for several years. Industry has too much overcapacity for another big investment surge and consumers are so deeply in debt that their buying power will be curtailed for some time. Concluded Reierson: "Admittedly, this appraisal runs counter to much of the economic thinking of our times, which takes for granted a quick return to long-term growth. Yet there is a real possibility that it may well take until the 1960s before the economy regains sufficient thrust...
When Director Minnelli showed them his rough cut, the boys in the front office decided they had something special, and announced that the show would open like a Broadway play-white tie and hard ticket. The public seemed to like the idea. Despite advanced prices ($3 top), more than $40,000 worth of tickets were mail-ordered before the box office opened...
Nobody can explain just how the operas of Giuseppe Verdi became an "electrical communication with the spirit of the time." The idea "just grew"-to the point where Italian patriots detected in the most innocent little note or inflection of a Verdi aria a cry for liberty and revolt. When Cavour received one night the telegram that began Italy's second War of Independence, he said not a word to his aides. He merely flung the window open and bellowed a phrase of Verdi's // Trovatore to his sleeping countrymen...